Why Michael Bay why?

Rating: 5/10 (19 December 2005)

Why do you insist of making films where everything has to blow up? Is it really necessary to have stunts that no person in real life could ever achieve in every film? Why? This movie could have been great. I had very low expectations going in and thought it was going to be nothing more than a rip of Logan's Run. Surprisingly the first half of the film was really good. The premise was interesting and well thought out. I was intrigued to find out what was going to happen. The escape scene into the desert was great. and then it happened... The M. Bay took the cuckoo out of the clock. The second half of the film is drenched with over the top special effects and ridiculous feats of human prowess. (Surviving a fall off a building comes to mind.) The film turns from being a cerebral sci-flick into a trailer for bad boys 3. I am going to refer to this movie from here on out as the movie that could have been. This is a really disappointing film.